September 21, 2008
Zamir Choral of Boston announces 2 women as conductors
Zamir Chorale of Boston announced that two women will be involved with their organization as conductors. Lidiya Yankovskaya will be this season's Assistant Conductor and Hinda Tzivia Eisen will be the 2008-09 Mary Wolfman Epstein Conducting Fellow.Read more... The Zamir Chorale newsletter announced that: "Lidiya graduated from Vassar College in May with a bachelor's in music and is working toward her master's degree in conducting at Boston University. She recently attended the Conductors' Institute at Bard College, studying with Maestro Harold Farberman; and Yale University's Norfolk Music Festival Choral Conducting Workshop, with Simon Carrington. An accomplished musician and recipient of numerous awards and honors both in her native Russia and here in the U.S., Lidiya is a mezzo-soprano who, in addition to conducting, also plays percussion, violin, and piano."
"Hinda is a senior at Boston University, majoring in religion, and is beginning her third season singing alto with Zamir. An alumna of HaZamir in New York, Hinda is the alumni coordinator for international HaZamir and conducted the a cappella choir at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires and Wisconsin.
Of the internship opportunity, Hinda says, "Much of my spirituality within Judaism is very much oriented in the music I produce with others, and as such I have often felt like I wanted to craft my own 'midrash' with the music I sing." When she's not musically engaged, Hinda volunteers as a clown for many appreciative children! The Mary Wolfman Epstein Conducting Fellowship was established in September 2000 by Scott Offen to train conductors in the area of Jewish choral music.
Posted by jmwc at September 21, 2008 12:07 PM